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by brmgb 6y ago
The quotes are only used outside of pipes. One file per line without quote has always been the comportment of ls when piped (but with shell globbing you rarely if ever have to pipe ls anyway).
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by brmgb 6y ago
My personal take on it is that between the anime avatar, the constant verbiage, the hero complex and the relectance to properly document things, it feels more like kids playing at finance than actual professional.
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by brmgb 6y ago
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web It doesn't do all that calibre does obviously but it does most of what I need. It's not per see a fork as it only uses the same database formats and directly call calib
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by brmgb 6y ago
Ocaml distinguishes between "e.lbl <- value" which is a mutation of e and "{e with lbl = value}" which creates a modified copy.
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by brmgb 6y ago
That's because you are American. As a foreigner, I find the idea that you can label a group as "black" and imagine it to be both descriptive and homegenous enough to see meaningful genetic variations relative to another group
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by brmgb 6y ago
I am going to put a direct link to the paper because it's basically an answer to this question: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3408995 If you don't want to read much, just read parts 1.3 and 1.
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by brmgb 6y ago
TLDR: If you have a function from b to c and a function from a to b then if you run the second function before the first one you can see the whole thing as a function from a to c. It even works with multiple arguments of type b by converti
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by brmgb 6y ago
Well, then that's library dependent and not an intrinsic part of the language. So shipping Lua safely would mean having to swap or drop parts of the standard library for something a bit more robust. Apparently, that's what Lunatik
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by brmgb 6y ago
> In particular, limiting the number of Lua bytecode instructions is insufficient - even a single call to `string.find` can lock up the CPU [0]. At first glance, the second part of this sentence doesn't seem to support the initial p
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by brmgb 6y ago
As someone who used to work on fairly old embedded systems in a safety critical environment, I am extremely puzzled by your comment. Why you would need to modify your code because you have dependencies ? Libraries'API are supposed to b
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by brmgb 6y ago
So you actually believe that if we imagine two plumbers A and B doing exactly the same jobs at exactly the same speed, A charging 70$ an hour and B 35$, A is twice as productive as B ? It's in line with GDP based reasoning but that&#x2
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Chrome destroyed them and I think it was mostly on technical merit That most certainly had nothing to do with the large advertisement on the Google-owned most visited web page in the world and the way Google artificially limited their
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by brmgb 6y ago
It's hit and miss. Sometimes it's very decent. Most of the time my discover weekly playlist contains 95% of music I find plain bad.
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by brmgb 6y ago
Generally, a queen is considered to be worth more than a rook and a bishop. Also, knights and bishops are worth the same except they are not. Knights are good in closed play but you can't mate with two knights and a king. Bishops are d
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by brmgb 6y ago
Not very. It is poetic licence on the part of the writer. AI had a real impact on how the game was played however. After the advent of computer evaluation, there was a broad consensus that the way to win was to play solid positions. In a wa
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by brmgb 6y ago
By allowing you to restructure them before privatizing. The crisis was a failure of gouvernance. Most of these banks were going to and should have failed. Once it was agreed that they were too big to let the situation run its course, it wou
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by brmgb 6y ago
The interesting question is what would have happened if the USA had directely nationalized and restructured the failing banks rather than loan them money after the subprime mortgage crisis and if it had supported the economy through product
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by brmgb 6y ago
I might have believed you before the covid epidemic but I think it definitely proved that wrong. We have a dearth of essential people. Nurses are a perfect example. Yet they keep being paid like crap. It is becoming clearer by the day that
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by brmgb 6y ago
Change the ressource rich part for a pre-existing deep harbor, swap the lottery for extremely cheap public housing and replace the somewhat far-fetched thing about an opposition party by the Western Block during the cold war and you more or
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Looked at the article, but didn't see any > Does the Pentagon budget break out the cost of Stars & Stripes? The answer to this question is in the eighth paragraph of the article, right before the discussion on how congress
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Despite that, Windows is easily one of the least annoying OSes that I have to deal with. Considering how annoying Windows 10 can be (scheduled reboot which you then can't disable, update downloading in the background without askin
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by brmgb 6y ago
Ada allows you to customize the size and memory representation of a lot of type. It's called representation clauses [1]. It can be very useful if you want to exchange data structures with a different language without marshalling. I hav
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If only you could specify in your schema that element must be unique. But wait a minute ! Actually, you can. That's what the unique attribute does. And here lies the main problem of XML. As a technology, it is better than its reputatio
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Picasso pioneered cubism and introduced collage to fine arts. He drifted between styles because he was both extremely prolific and extremely versatile. Still he was immensely original.
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Sexting is a direct erotic interaction with someone. It is not actually about the pictures per se. A lot of sexting doesn't involve pictures at all.
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Technically, POSIX machine already identifies each file using a serial number. This defines a specific inode. File names are stored into directory entries which are just specific files mapping names to inodes. Multiple names can already poi
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by brmgb 6y ago
Reading your comment made me interested into looking into some figures to compare cities in Europe and the USA. If you look at the population of agglomerations (some cities in Europe have ridiculously small limits - Paris is fifteen times s
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by brmgb 6y ago
> [most potential users, including] home NAS users, have at most two HDD. Let's not truncate this sentence to avoid altering its meaning. I certainly don't deny four drives NAS exist but I think dual bays are still a lot more c
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Well, the actual cost is 73 euros per month but in typical French fashion my employer has to pay for half of my metro pass (also I have the cheapest bike rental plan and trips are only free if they last less than 30 minutes).
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> But unless you somehow gift me one million dollars USD or more (and the same to every single person I know), none of us are going to be able to afford to live anywhere in Paris that actually has close access to all of those things you&

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